I'm the Ripper. Hear me roar.
In a statement equivalent to Jack the Ripper announcing that he is a feminist, President Obama says that he is in back of America's man-in-space program, in favor of American astronauts going to Mars- and that he expects to see it in his lifetime.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin signed off on President Obama's gutting of America's space program in favor of turning manned space exploration over to a private sector ill-equipped to handle it. But fellow Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and James Lovell emphatically disagree.
In any event, it certainly seems to me that if we get to Mars- whether in Mr. Obama's lifetime or not- it will be in spite of, rather than because of, his decision to trash America's man-in-space program.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin signed off on President Obama's gutting of America's space program in favor of turning manned space exploration over to a private sector ill-equipped to handle it. But fellow Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and James Lovell emphatically disagree.
In any event, it certainly seems to me that if we get to Mars- whether in Mr. Obama's lifetime or not- it will be in spite of, rather than because of, his decision to trash America's man-in-space program.
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